Who opened the NO floodgates?

[dbeach]

MM keeps playin that FEMA is doing a great job..HELLO??<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/310805openedfloodgates.htm">www.prisonplanet.com/arti...dgates.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>"As the federal government takeover of New Orleans continues and the helpless masses beg the state for refuge and assurance, the media is ignoring the key fact that it was the federal government itself that lowered the guard in cutting off key funding to protect Louisiana from natural disasters.<br><br>The New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bore the brunt of a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding for fiscal year 2006.<br><br>The Bush administration's move to merge FEMA with Homeland Security meant that the two had to compete for funding. Straightforward projects that would have massively reduced the devastation we are now seeing, such as raising houses, were cast aside in favor of anti-terrorism measures<br><br>It is an insult to the victims of Hurricane Katrina that the federal government can stomp in, impose martial law while forcibly evacuating local government officials against their will and then be portrayed as saviors by the media, when it was the Bush administration that figuratively opened the gates for the floods to rampage through the city and kill countless thousands. "<br><br> <p></p><i></i>